For coloring text inside text widgets

[vikash0705]

Can't we use any other colouring modules that gives us coloured text?

This way we can for a chuck of string first which might have few words coloured and then render this on the text widget using a single write function call. Instead of invoking multiple write calls on the same widget to get coloured text.

Example
str = "Sample coloured text to display in red colour"
textWidget.Write(str)

Instead of doing the below

wrapped.Write("Sample")
wrapped.Write("coloured", text.WriteCellOpts(cell.FgColor(cell.ColorRed)))
wrapped.Write("text to")
wrapped.Write("display", text.WriteCellOpts(cell.FgColor(cell.ColorBlue)))
wrapped.Write("in red colour")

Any way of doing this?

[mum4k]

Hi @vikash0705, we can certainly introduce new ways of doing this. I don't fully understand the examples provided, since the two blocks of code do different things. The first one applies the same color to the entire text, the second one uses multiple colors.

As you likely know - adding a text with a single color can already be done with a single call to Text.Write.

I am assuming this discussion is about adding text with multiple colors. Can you help me to understand the problem we are trying to solve? Why is it a problem to call the Write function multiple times? Once I understand the problem, we can try to discuss alternatives.